GETTING WRITTEN UP: What is the most ridiculous thing you have been written up for?

BarbPick · Feb 11, 2004

I was written up for not crossing off maalox prn on an MAR. (crossed eyes)

TraumaQueen · Feb 11, 2004

I went through the MRI questionairre with a patient who was completely, 100% appropriate. I asked him if he had ever had stents placed, explained to him what they were, and he categorically denied EVER having them at any point in his life. I asked him, had he ever had metal in his eyes, to which he responded yes, so we got orbital x-rays.... I even double-checked all of his responses with his family members who were present in the room.

I surfed through his chart and saw no noted history of cardiac stents. None of his old charts were available, and I sent him down to MRI.

Then, when he got down there, they asked him the questions again, and he said yes, he had stents in the past, after he had told me no.

So, the wrote me up, and made it really sound like I had been negligent. I wasn't.

Respiratory writes us up everytime one of our patients self-extubates, since it's an unusual occurence......

My favorite one was when an RT wrote up our medical director for making vent changes and not waiting on them to get there..... yeah, that one most likely found its way into the garbage. :)

CseMgr1, ASN, RN · Feb 11, 2004

I went through the MRI questionairre with a patient who was completely, 100% appropriate. I asked him if he had ever had stents placed, explained to him what they were, and he categorically denied EVER having them at any point in his life. I asked him, had he ever had metal in his eyes, to which he responded yes, so we got orbital x-rays.... I even double-checked all of his responses with his family members who were present in the room.
I surfed through his chart and saw no noted history of cardiac stents. None of his old charts were available, and I sent him down to MRI.
Then, when he got down there, they asked him the questions again, and he said yes, he had stents in the past, after he had told me no.
So, the wrote me up, and made it really sound like I had been negligent. I wasn't.
Respiratory writes us up everytime one of our patients self-extubates, since it's an unusual occurence......
My favorite one was when an RT wrote up our medical director for making vent changes and not waiting on them to get there..... yeah, that one most likely found its way into the garbage. :)

These idiots have to find something, to justify their existence, don't they? :angryfire

KaroSnowQueen, RN · Feb 11, 2004

Pt in room A - woman in her late 60's/early 70's.

Pt in room B - woman in her late 60's/early 70's.

Doc goes into room A, starts to remove sutures from midline incision. Incision spontaneously seperates and pt partially dehisces and starts screaming with the family in the room watching!!!!! MD barking orders, scurrying about, saline dressings, calling for this that and the other, getting pain meds, run, run, hurry, hurry!!!!

Family of lady in room B, grabs me as I go flying past, "Grandma wants a coke." Say as quickly and pleasantly as I could, "I am involved in an emergency, can you please find someone else, as I will be a while?", with an armload of dressings, IV fluids, injectables.

Family of room B complains to nurse manager, tells them I was rude and wouldn't get Grandma a coke.

I was written up for "bad customer service." I'm sure if I had told the pt and her family in room A that I couldn't bring her IV Morphine/Phenergan and dressings, that I had to get B a Coke it would have been just fine!!! :uhoh3:

P_RN, ADN, RN · Feb 11, 2004

"Mine was clocking in on wrong clock." The clock number didn't correspond with ANY in the whole facility. I spent nearly an hour of my own time with payroll to see why that particular clock number showed, and it turned out to be the NM's feature of entering a missing registration (clock in). When I showed her the info she still refused to take back my "anecdotal note." grrrrrrrrrrrrr

TraumaQueen · Feb 11, 2004

We are granted 14 Time Maintenence Requests.... where we can screw up our clocking in, clocking out, transferring cost centers when we get floated.... and I'm not sure what happens at the 14 mark.... but this is a new policy, and I'm a huge offender of forgetting to clock-in.... so I'll let you know! :)

SmilingBluEyes · Feb 11, 2004

Lord some of these things are ridiculous. I have never been written up...but have done occurence reports on errors I made...so in a way, I guess I have been written up. NO major errors, but reportable none the less.

live4today, RN · Feb 11, 2004

Some doc wrote me up for not kissing her buns right when she wanted them kissed. :rolleyes: Never in all my years as a nurse was I EVER written up for anything...no drug errors, no nothing. Then, along comes "young blondie" with "I'm not a nurse, I'm a doctor" attitude in tow, and decided she had enough of nurses and others in the hospital confusing her with being "a nurse".....God forbid! :rolleyes: So, guess who she chose to spew her attitude on? You got it! Let me run into her on the street or in a restaurant........have I got a lesson for her. :rotfl:

SmilingBluEyes · Feb 11, 2004

YOU SO ROCK RENEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thumbs up.

laughingfairy · Feb 11, 2004

I got written up for using the wrong dressing product. The order was written for the name brand that was not in stock...it is sorta like a duederm with a foam dressing for pressure relief in the center...anyway it was out of stock and apparently had been for some time. It was a daily dressing change, and the date on the dressing was a week prior. I signed the treatment record circled it and wrote on the back what I used. Same type of product different manufacturer. I was written up because I didn't call the on call physcian and get a clarification order. The patient's physcian wasn't even on call and it was a Saturday. But the nurse who should have changed it daily for the past week and hadn't signed the record, went back and signed the record after the fact. There I was left with no proof that the nurse during the week should have gotten the clarafication. Still ticks me off.

Oh well live and learn. Get the supervisor as a witness.

Burnt Out, ASN, RN · Feb 11, 2004

Oh my gosh....I can't believe the stuff ya'll have gotten written up for!! :rolleyes: :eek:

I have filled out incident reports on mistakes I have made...but to the best of my knowledge, I haven't been "written up."